Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisandis an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. Her career spanning six decades, she has become an icon in multiple fields of entertainment, and has been recognized with two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors prize, four Peabody Awards, The Presidential Medal Of Freedom and nine Golden...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth24 April 1942
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.